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Richard "Lord British" Garriott has kept to himself about the shut down of the MMO he worked on for six years, Tabula Rasa, but today our sister site GameDaily has posted up a brief chat with the legendary game designer where he opens up for the first time about NCsoft's decision to close down the game's servers at the end of February (announced just a few days after Garriott left the company).Garriott states that in his opinion Tabula Rasa "...should have continued -- in the sense of, it was a game that was hitting its stride enough where it could keep what I'll call a critical fan base, and had the opportunity to continue to be grown." He added, "But I'm also not what I'll call terribly surprised, either, that the company would choose this path. I think NCsoft looks at it as an opportunity cost issue -- where they put those resources and people on that, or something new. They chose something new."Garriott also talked about the strong likelyhood of returing to the game industry and when ask if he would be interested in working with Electronic Arts on a revival of his Ultima series he states, "Conceptually? Sure. The property Ultima is still very near and dear to my heart. I think that if, by hook or by crook, I had access to that property, either in solo-player or multiplayer, I would absolutely love to continue to play in the Ultima universe."

Richard Garriott talks Tabula Rasa closure, an Ultima revival and more originally appeared on Big Download Blog on Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:00:00 EST.

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